Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: west TN co farm (Co-Farming)

[Susan (smroelke]

Ideally I am looking for several individuals who want to live and work on a 
farm. Large families used to work farms - but I am finding many single 
people, or small families who can't afford a large amount of land, and can't 
physically do all the work..so if we use a cohousing model of community, 
with a farm theme. For example...10 family units with their own 
specialties....one family may want dairy cows, one may want fruit 
production, one chickens....
If they had their own place they would duplicate a barn, a truck, a tractor 
and so on...why not share some of these major expenses?
It will be complex - but I need to start somewhere.

Susan


> Co-farming sounds very interesting.  Are you thinking organic?  Mono-crop
> or diversified, like for farmer's markets?  Are you thinking of individual
> plots plus a community one (like the private and common spaces of
> cohousing)?  And cohousing is part of the idea, too, or not?
>
> I am not in cohousing, and have mostly just been in discussions with
> people wishing they were.  In those contexts, having a CSA (Community
> Supported Agriculture--that is, a weekly produce share paid for by
> subsciption) has been at the top of the wish list.   And the other thing
> of course people talk about, is a huge garden for produce for the
> community and private kitchens.
>
> Maybe you could say more of the ways you see it as possibly being
> organized.  What are your favorite ideas?
>
> Joanne